French GP Friday Prost notes

Nick Heidfeld:
"I am happy enough with this first day of practice which was run without
any particular difficulty. We have been able to complete all of the
programme for today and to test a good number of mechanical and
aerodynamic set-ups.

Nick Heidfeld:
"I am happy enough with this first day of practice which was run without
any particular difficulty. We have been able to complete all of the
programme for today and to test a good number of mechanical and
aerodynamic set-ups. Considering that I used no more than one set of tyres,
my times are encouraging for the rest of the weekend and I feel pretty
confident."

Jean Alesi:
"This was an interesting day from the point of view of the number
of different things which we were able to try. However, it seems to
me that the tyres are behaving very differently here as compared to
last week for the test. So we have had to make a lot of set-up changes.
I am sure that in the end we will find a good compromise. Anyway, we have
to have a car that is easy to drive in qualifying as the times will be very
close and half a tenth can change everything. So we are going to do
everything we can to fine-tune the car for tomorrow."

Alain Prost:
"It has been a good start to the weekend, without any reliability
problems. We can, I think, look for a good result in both
Saturday's qualifying and the race on Sunday even if the race is run
in difficult weather conditions. So motivation and concentration will be
the two most important factors in trying to achieve this."